Abstract
The current decarbonisation scenario demands a decrease in embodied and operational environmental impacts of buildings, wherein the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method and the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) play a crucial role. The main objective of EPDs is to provide validated and geographically representative data to conduct LCA, since they play a major practical role in the application of LCA. However, development of EPDs in the European context remains irregular. Several countries, such as Germany and France, have a great number of EPDs of construction products, while other countries, such as Spain, present a much lower number. This study aims to analyse the existing EPDs of construction products developed in Spain, and to identify the EPD programs, the type of products (building system or element-associated), which LCA information modules are included, and the accuracy of the declared impact values. The results obtained show that ceramic cladding, gypsum plasterboard, cement, and clay products are those with the greatest number of EPDs. On the other hand, building service products have relatively few EPDs. Finally, several recommendations are proposed towards improving EPD development and challenges are detected.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 012128 |
| Journal | IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |
| Volume | 1078 |
| ISSN | 1755-1307 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Event | SBE 2022 Berlin D-A-CH Conference: Built Environment within Planetary Boundaries, sbe22 Berlin 2022 - Virtual, Online Duration: 20 Sept 2022 → 23 Sept 2022 |
Conference
| Conference | SBE 2022 Berlin D-A-CH Conference: Built Environment within Planetary Boundaries, sbe22 Berlin 2022 |
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| City | Virtual, Online |
| Period | 20/09/2022 → 23/09/2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors B.S.V. and C.L. thank the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, which supported the project Grant BIA2017-84830-R funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF A way of making Europe; and the Junta de Andalucía which supported the project Grant US.20-03 funded by Consejería de Fomento, Infraestructuras y Ordenación del Territorio, and the project Grant P20_00541 funded by the Junta de Andalucía and by ERDF A way of making Europe. The author B.S.V. also appreciates the support from the University of Seville and the VI Plan Propio de Investigación (VIPPIT-2021-I.3) that financially supported the research visit of the first author at the Graz University of Technology.
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